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The Acton Free Press Wednesday Feb 9 by Janel Fleming With the increase in our membership as dis played by the well attended Annual General Meeting on January the Acton Chamber or Commerce now a broader base of re presentation from the community and its four sectors private retail industrial and professional groups Plans are already under way for the formation of an Industrial Com mittee and a Professional Committee to give these groups a chance to work together as im portant sections within the community We also hope to organize a President a Club which will provide a liaison for the various groups in town as they plan their goals and activities for the year You have probably noticed earlier in the Act on Free Press that the Acton High School is host ing a visiting band from Edmonton from Feb ruary to February Dave Sale of the High School and Dave Whiting of the Chamber are working together closely to organize a warm welcome for these students We ask that you the public help make the students feel the friend liness of our town during their visit Early this spring we plan a much needed re novation of the Chamber Bulletin Board A new idea for coordinating community activities as suggested by a Chamber member wilt be init with the hope of providing a convenient and organized method of events planning for all of the area groups and clubs Look to the Free Press for more on this as spring approaches The Citizen of the Year evening is sche duled for April mark your calendar now Further information and will appear in a few weeks The Map and Directory for the Acton area of the Town of Hal ton Hills will be available to the public shortly Call or write your Chamber Sec retary after March for your copy This is just an early sampling of Chamber involvement for 19S0 There are other plans for new projects as well as the continuation and ex pansion of our regular activities It is the sincere hope of the Chamber that general membership and the community as a whole will follow through on its early enthusiasm with new ideas comments and criticism The new decade pro mises many important changes and decisions for the Acton area We hope to see support and in to rest in the town as more individuals and groups become actively involved The school beat by Janet Howe Last Wednesday Dr came to visit us at Acton High Capp is now dealing in medicine here in Canada but hopes to soon pract ice his profession in Cambodia A film was presented called The Silent Death of Cam Year Zero The film was very moving and even a little up setting for some at Acton High Seeing children dy ing from starvation made us aware of how fort we are This gave us the idea of raising money within the school to send to Cambodia We have participated in theTen Days for World Development by selling carnations The Student Association was selling carnations all last week to students and staff The idea was to buy a earn and send it to someone else in the school The carnations will be delivered to dents and staff on Vol entincs Day All the money raised will go to those in Cambodia Something extra that someone took into their own hands to do was to raise money and send four dozen carnations to the Old Age Home in Acton for Valentines Day Acton High band mem ore looking forward to welcoming a number of students from an Ed band The vis itors will be billeted with Acton band members During their one week stay they will be touring with Acton High band outside of Acton and playing concerts in Tor onto and Kitchener area The members of the Acton band will be going to Edmonton in late May and billeted with families there This week is once again Spirit Week Monday was known as Greaser Day This day has now seemed to become on annual thing day was hug a bug red and white day Today I Wednesday was the Great Valentine Search Thursday is the ever popular Dress up day With the girls in dresses and guys in suits they ore walled on by waitresses during their lunch period Friday will be the Val entines Dance Bill Heaps who was recom mended by CFTR radio station in Toronto will be the disc jockey by Lisa Last Tuesday evening a small in one of the lights in Room Five Smoke filled the en tire length of the lower Miss Richard son Mrs Penltila and Mr working upstairs and they had to get out of the building Mrs 0 one of the caretakers who was also in the school called Fire Chief Holmes and he came over right away Chief Holmes located the pro blem and called an electrician The light was quickly repaired and the doors were opened to low the smoke to clear The students of Rooms one two and 12 will be having a sandwich and cookie sale and a plant and chocolate draw for a fund raising activity This event will be held on alentines Day February 14 The students of Room 10 are putting together a newspaper So far only two sections arc ready Work on this project is progressing very well Wed Feb 13 to Tubs Feb 8783272 8783208 Stevon Spolbsra Film DAN NED JOHN LORRAINE GARY MURRAY HAMILTON CHRISTOPHER LEE TIM MATHES0N TOSHIftO MJFUNE WARREN ROBERT STACK TREAT WILLIAMS A UMVBBU PKHUBtS AM COLUMBIA PICTURES lYDKtCCODUANIKM Show Times SunThurs 8 pm Scout parade this Sunday Preparations are 17 in Acton underway for the annual AH Beavers Cubs Scout and Guide week parade and church ser vice this Sunday Scouts Venturers Brownies Guides and Pathfinders are expected Ignore mortgage interest on return J Giles Director of Federal Income Tax in Hamilton reminds taxpayers to ignore all refer to The Mortgage Interest and Property Tax Credit on their 1979 Income Tax Approximately six million special returns were mailed to taxpayers containing provisions for claiming the credit The legislation allowing persons to claim the credit was not approved by Parliament and therefore is not in effect for the tax year Mr Giles says that taxpayers should discard of Schedule if included in their returns Exdetective is committed for trial to In the parade and service in full uniform The youngsters will at the Scout Hall at 1 15 pm and inarch to SI Joseph Church on Church Street for the p denominational service commemorate the memory of Lord and Lady Baden Powell founders of the Scouting movement Parents are Invited Io attend the ser vice There will be a silver and proceeds go to the Scout and Guide World Friendship Fund Scout and Guide week runs from February to and celebrates the birth of the founders of the movement on Feb ruary Church parades ore an important part of Scout Guide week because one of the main principles of the movement is To Love and Serve God Robert Little Public School pupils got a chance to see and to ask questions about huskies last week Three classes of grade two pupils were visited by Chief left and right and their owners Douglas and Sheila Pant ling of Ken The pupils are learning about Eskimos and their life as part of the environmental study pro s Photo by ERIC Roy Wood a former constable with the OPP in Acton and resident of Georgetown has been charged with theft and been committed for trial before a county court Wood was arraigned on one count of theft and one count of possession of stolen property but entered no pleas to either charge He appeared briefly before a pro vincial court re cently and waived a pre liminary hearing into the charges against lum Wood was released from custody on a cash deposit and a surety THE ACTION IS ON COME AND PLAY EVERY SINGLE NIGHT ENTIRE HALL ON ONE FLOOR fill ADMISSION SUMS SUNDAY INFORMATION ALL TO CHAJtlTY INTERNATIONAL CENTRE AND Ladies Fair Board Prize lists to printers It was business as usual at the February meeting of the Ladies Division Of the Acton Agricultural Society held last Wednesday evening President Heather reported that the hall division prize book for this September s Acton Fall Fair has been sent to the printer The prize list should be out earlier this year than last year The ladies ex pressed concern it was not in the hands of exhibitors for the long winter evenings This is the time for knitting crocheting and other needlework Conveners are in the process of obtaining judges for the hall classes of the fair Draw tickets for the Ladies Divisions prize winning quilt will be ready for the March meeting The up coming convention the Ontario Association of discussed It is not definite if any members will be able to The March meeting was planned with a view to drawing present mem bers out to meetings and attracting new members It will be held at pm Wednesday March at the Acton Public Library As an enticement Mrs Inez Cnchton of Lime- will demonstrate candy making Con will make a spec ial effort to remind their committees of the meet ing Members were asked to bring a guest who might be interested in the fair Phone or for any fur ther information lie freshmen is are planned FERGUS MARKET on the Grand INOOOnS Friday ANTIQUES ETC Fridays 1 pm Saturday 8 omA pm Sunday pm available There is absolutely no other cigarette quite like Medallion Molt Slop I Varden slop mi Hit Toronto 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